ECI Evaluation

Today the girls had an evaluation with Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) to determine if they have a delay in their speech. Up until about a month ago, the girls only said about 5-10 words, so we were referred to ECI with the idea that it would be better to get help sooner rather than later. In between being referred to ECI and this past week, the girls have had a little language boom, so the nice ladies from ECI probably thought we were crazy for having them evaluated. We weren't worried about any other areas of their development, but since ECI was here they went ahead and tested all areas. They used a test called the DAYC (Developmental Assessment of Young Children) that has 5 main areas. Here are their results:

Adaptive (self help skills) - 27 months
Cognitive (attention, memory, etc) - 29 months
Physical Development (fine and gross motor skills) - 26 months
Communication (verbal and non-verbal, expressive and receptive language) - 24 months
Social-Emotional Development (social interaction) - 34 months

The girls are 25 months old today, so they are ahead in every area except Language. Since they are only a month behind in Language development they don't qualify for any intervention. I couldn't believe that their social interaction result was at almost a 3-year old level...they actually got points because they fighting over toys. I guess being a twin has its perks.

Proof of some new words: